Ancestor-worshipping village shaman divines a path around Indonesia’s bureaucracy . Posted 26 September 2011, by Rob Kerby, BeliefNet News (BeliefNet), blog.beliefnet.com/news/ . In Tumbang Saan, a village of huts built on stilts in Borneo’s vast rainforest, village elder Udatn had a problem. He’s a spiritual leader in Kaharingan, one of a number of names for the ancestor-worshipping, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘geography’
26 Sep
WATCH LIVE: Tarsands Civil Disobedience Sept 26, 2011
WATCH LIVE: Tarsands Civil Disobedience Sept 26, 2011 . Posted 26 September 2011, by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, bsnorrell.blogspot.com . . . . APTN Photos CBC Live Ottawa http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Politics/1244504890/ID=2129385867 . Hundreds gather on Parliament Hill to say ‘No to Tar Sands’ (Ottawa) – Hundreds of people from across North America are gathered this morning on [...]
24 Sep
Navajo President fails the Earth and the Navajo People
Navajo President fails the Earth and the Navajo People . Posted 23 September 2011, by Calvin Johnson, Censored News, bsnorrell.blogspot.com . Navajo President Ben Shelly, who urged the protection of the earth and respect for Dine’ culture at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, has line item vetoed the Navajo Green [...]
24 Sep
OTTAWA Tar Sands Civil Disobedience Sept 26, 2011
OTTAWA Tar Sands Civil Disobedience Sept 26, 2011 Canadian First Nations, US-based Tribal Governments and Indigenous Advocacy Groups Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience Action to Protest Canadian Tar Sands . Posted 23 September 2011, by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, bsnorrell.blogspot.com . Press statement Posted at Censored News OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian First Nations, American Indian [...]
24 Sep
Cree George Poitras: Ottawa Tarsands Action Monday
Cree George Poitras: Ottawa Tarsands Action Monday OTTAWA TARSANDS ACTION – Why am I attending? . Posted 24 September 2011, by George Poitras, Censored News, bsnorrell.blogspot.com . George Poitras is a former Chief, Mikisew Cree First Nation . In the past year and even more so in the past few weeks a lot of debate [...]
24 Sep
Sri Lanka’s women deminers clean up legacy of Asia’s longest war
Sri Lanka’s women deminers clean up legacy of Asia’s longest war . Posted 23 September 2011, by Nita Bhalla, SwissInfo (Swiss Broadcasting Corporation), swissinfo.ch . MANNAR, Sri Lanka (AlertNet) – Wearing a visor and a protective vest over grey fatigues tucked into black military boots, former housewife S. Dishanty crawls on her hands and [...]
24 Sep
Chicomoztoc and Origin Myths of Mesoamerica
Chicomoztoc and Origin Myths of Mesoamerica . Posted 23 September 2011, by K. Kris Hirst, About (New York Times), archaeology.about.com . Textbooks and general public outreach articles about Mesoamerica often of necessity split Mesoamerica into discrete pieces: Toltec, Aztec, Maya, Olmec. It is plainly easier for us modern types to think of (and write about) these [...]
24 Sep
Why the world is running out of helium
Why the world is running out of helium . Posted 23 August 2011, by Steve Connor, The Independent, independent.co.uk . It is the second-lightest element in the Universe, has the lowest boiling-point of any gas and is commonly used through the world to inflate party balloons. But helium is also a non-renewable resource [...]
23 Sep
IKPF accuses State Govt on Sadar Hills
IKPF accuses State Govt on Sadar Hills . Posted23 September 2011, by Staff (The Sangai Express), E-PAO, e-pao.net . Imphal, September 21 2011: Indigenous Kuki People’s Forum (IKPF) has accused the State Government of playing divide and rule policy with the issue of Sadar Hills. Saying that the hill is the body and [...]
